Focus on emissions

While we welcome Environment Minister
Greg Hunt
’s outline of the government’s planned actions to reduce carbon emissions (“Acid oceans the biggest climate worry", AFR, October 1), the government should include a technology-neutral emissions-intensity power-generation scheme. Rather than the Renewable Energy Target, which has led to coal being favoured over natural gas for new power plants, a scheme focused on emissions reduction, rather than picking renewable winners, would still encourage renewable energy, while encouraging gas rather than coal for new power generation.